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all right, mitt romney was the last candidate to speak tonight. as sam said earlier, he had the tel prompters out. rick santorum came out and i thought, gave a really good speech. for rick santorum, it was a huge opportunity. he has not gotten a lot of what is called in the business world media. he has not gotten a lot of attention. people don't know what rick santorum is or what he stands for. he was almost like his speech night reminded me of a conventional speech. conventional speech is always about your hardworking forefathers and your grandfather who lived the american dream. and so he gave -- he gave what i thought was a very effective speech. he talked about the immigrant experience in his family. it was a grandfather that came up from italy in the coal fields in pennsylvania. a and then romney came down and gave an antic speech. i should say this, i'm a little antic myself. but he gave, i thought, a little bit of an antic speech. and it didn't, you know, again, it had this sort of essential lack of soul. i think chris matthews said that he
all right, mitt romney was the last candidate to speak tonight. as sam said earlier, he had the tel prompters out. rick santorum came out and i thought, gave a really good speech. for rick santorum, it was a huge opportunity. he has not gotten a lot of what is called in the business world media. he has not gotten a lot of attention. people don't know what rick santorum is or what he stands for. he was almost like his speech night reminded me of a conventional speech. conventional speech is...
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all right, mitt romney was the last candidate to speak tonight. as sam said earlier, he had the tel prompters out. rick santorum came out and i thought, gave a really good speech. for rick santorum, it was a huge opportunity. he has not gotten a lot of what is called in the business world media. he has not gotten a lot of attention. people don't know what rick santorum is or what he stands for. he was almost like his speech night reminded me of a conventional speech. conventional speech is always about your hardworking forefathers and your grandfather who lived the american dream. and so he gave -- he gave what i thought was a very effective speech. he talked about the immigrant experience in his family. it was a grandfather that came up from italy in the coal fields in pennsylvania. and and then romney came down and gave an antic speech. i should say this, i'm a little antic myself. but he gave, i thought, a little bit of an antic speech. and it didn't, you know, again, it had this sort of essential lack of soul. i think chris matthews said that
all right, mitt romney was the last candidate to speak tonight. as sam said earlier, he had the tel prompters out. rick santorum came out and i thought, gave a really good speech. for rick santorum, it was a huge opportunity. he has not gotten a lot of what is called in the business world media. he has not gotten a lot of attention. people don't know what rick santorum is or what he stands for. he was almost like his speech night reminded me of a conventional speech. conventional speech is...
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all right, mitt romney was the last candidate to speak tonight. as sam said earlier, he had the tel prompters out. rick santorum came out and i thought, gave a really good speech. for rick santorum, it was a huge opportunity. he has not gotten a lot of what is called in the business world media. he has not gotten a lot of attention. people don't know what rick santorum is or what he stands for. he was almost like his speech night reminded me of a conventional speech. conventional speech is always about your hardworking forefathers and your grandfather who lived the american dream. and so he gave -- he gave what i thought was a very effective speech. he talked about the immigrant experience in his family. it was a grandfather that came up from italy in the coal fields in pennsylvania. and and then romney came down and gave an antic speech. i should say this, i'm a little antic myself. but he gave, i thought, a little bit of an antic speech. and it didn't, you know, again, it had this sort of essential lack of soul. i think chris matthews said that
all right, mitt romney was the last candidate to speak tonight. as sam said earlier, he had the tel prompters out. rick santorum came out and i thought, gave a really good speech. for rick santorum, it was a huge opportunity. he has not gotten a lot of what is called in the business world media. he has not gotten a lot of attention. people don't know what rick santorum is or what he stands for. he was almost like his speech night reminded me of a conventional speech. conventional speech is...
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be romney, right? evangelical leaders give rick santorum their vote. will it make a difference at this point? i'll ask joy-ann reid. psycho talk, rick perry make excuses for marines filmed urinating on a dead taliban story. the reaction is unbelievable. >>> in public education, you want a real good lefty story in america? under attack in pennsylvania, there is a school district that is running out of money because of massive education cuts from the state. you will hear from a teacher from the school district later on in the show and i'll give you my commentary. share your thoughts on twiter #edshow. we're right back. stay with us. ttd# 1-800-345-2550 when companies try to sell you something off their menu ttd# 1-800-345-2550 instead of trying to understand what you really need. ttd# 1-800-345-2550 ttd# 1-800-345-2550 at charles schwab, we provide ttd# 1-800-345-2550 a full range of financial products, ttd# 1-800-345-2550 even if they're not ours. ttd# 1-800-345-2550 and we listen before making our reco
be romney, right? evangelical leaders give rick santorum their vote. will it make a difference at this point? i'll ask joy-ann reid. psycho talk, rick perry make excuses for marines filmed urinating on a dead taliban story. the reaction is unbelievable. >>> in public education, you want a real good lefty story in america? under attack in pennsylvania, there is a school district that is running out of money because of massive education cuts from the state. you will hear from a teacher...
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>> yeah, i think it's the right way to encourage economic growth. >> tonight, richard wolf on mitt romney's definition of fair and economist dean baker on romney's ability to game the tax code with chinese investments. >> my expectation would be in the crunch in october, governor romney is going to be for the entire ticket. he is going to be for todd akin. >> republicans turn to newt gingrich to try to save todd akin in missouri and try to save the senate. howard fineman has the latest. and it is finally explained. it turns out he stacked the crowd with supporters. and it's not the first time. >> i do love that music. i have to tell you. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. mitt romney tried to create a distraction from his 47% comments. instead he gave himself more headaches. late friday afternoon, the romney campaign released the candidate's 2011 tax returns. the romneys paid a tax rate of 14.1% and would have paid an even lower rate if they took all of their deductions. the tax returns put the focus back on the issue of tax fairness in america. romney was aske
>> yeah, i think it's the right way to encourage economic growth. >> tonight, richard wolf on mitt romney's definition of fair and economist dean baker on romney's ability to game the tax code with chinese investments. >> my expectation would be in the crunch in october, governor romney is going to be for the entire ticket. he is going to be for todd akin. >> republicans turn to newt gingrich to try to save todd akin in missouri and try to save the senate. howard fineman...
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. >> i think mitt romney's biggest problem right now is mitt romney. >> there were a couple of times i wondered if i was going to get a pink slip. >> the great middle class, the 80 to 90% of us. >> he's got to reduce the line where he seems a little out of touch. >> poor george. he was born with a silver foot in his mouth! >> this is a real kamikaze mission to try to stop mitt romney. >> other campaigns were firing at me very aggressively. >> south carolina is the place where we'll make our stand. >> you're getting hit by newt gingrich on social issues already in south carolina. >> the down and dirty in south carolina. >> it's a good boost going into south carolina. >> romney may have a tough time. >> mitt romney heads into south carolina today with a huge target on his back. >> newt gingrich, rick santorum, and jon huntsman have a single strategy. >> he's going to get just shellacked. >> south carolina as good a place to draw that line in the sand as any. >> this is going to be fun! ha-ha! >>> mitt romney is on the glide path to the most easily secured nomination a republican presid
. >> i think mitt romney's biggest problem right now is mitt romney. >> there were a couple of times i wondered if i was going to get a pink slip. >> the great middle class, the 80 to 90% of us. >> he's got to reduce the line where he seems a little out of touch. >> poor george. he was born with a silver foot in his mouth! >> this is a real kamikaze mission to try to stop mitt romney. >> other campaigns were firing at me very aggressively. >>...
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i don't know anybody inspired by romney, right left or center. >> what is the romney message? >> i believe this country is a presidential country. if you don't have inspiration at the top, the country is not led. i see nothing in terms of positive from romney. i see smart business, he is a man of business. thank you. have a nice weekend, john heilemann in new york, and david corn, thank you so much, my buddy. >>> coming up, republicans insist there's no war on women. of course they don't see it that way. democrats do. this is hot, hot politics. gender politics. >>> then why are republicans out in arizona about to pass a bill to require women trying to get reimbursed for birth control to prove they're taking it for medical reasons, not to do with birth control? this is strange. we're going to try to explain it. and this doesn't help the republicans, but it is ahead. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] is zero worth nothing? ♪ imagine zero pollutants in our environment. or zero dependency on foreign oil. ♪ this is why we at nissan built a car inspire
i don't know anybody inspired by romney, right left or center. >> what is the romney message? >> i believe this country is a presidential country. if you don't have inspiration at the top, the country is not led. i see nothing in terms of positive from romney. i see smart business, he is a man of business. thank you. have a nice weekend, john heilemann in new york, and david corn, thank you so much, my buddy. >>> coming up, republicans insist there's no war on women. of...
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right now follow the marching bands to the polls. the romney folks are behind. they don't want america to vote right now. if america went and voted right now, nate silver says president obama would win by 138 electoral vote. there are no marching bands leading people to the polls from the romney side right now. that is not what they need. what the romney side needs is they'd still have to persuade people that mitt romney is the guy to vote for. they need to stop doing whatever it is that has turned so many people off to their candidate. when you ask voters whether they like this mitt romney guy, the answer is a very, very plain answer. no. his favorable ratings are in the low 40s, almost 10 points lower than the ratings for president obama. lower even than the famously unpopular former president george w. bush right now. swing state voters say they do not think mitt romney cares about the needs of people like them. some of them are shockingly bad. look at the percentage of swing state voters who say mitt romney's policies will favor the middle class. in florida
right now follow the marching bands to the polls. the romney folks are behind. they don't want america to vote right now. if america went and voted right now, nate silver says president obama would win by 138 electoral vote. there are no marching bands leading people to the polls from the romney side right now. that is not what they need. what the romney side needs is they'd still have to persuade people that mitt romney is the guy to vote for. they need to stop doing whatever it is that has...
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we want to go with romney. sniet. >> right. well, one thing i think you see, in 2008 we had a record turnout with just under 120,000 iowa republicans. and in that four-year span since then we've had 33 straight months of republican registration gains here in iowa. so we've got about 30,000 more iowa republicans. we had the second largest say ten dance we saw ever in the extra poll in august. and it's the first chance anybody in the country gets to vote to start the process to replace barack obama. so i would be surprised if we didn't have a strong turnout tuesday night. and with good weather, for those senior citizens, when you look at the poll results, mitt romney does the best, with 60 and over voters. so i think we are set up to have a strong turnout, and people do need to remember the iowa caucuses, as an independent or a democrat, you can register as a republican that night and participate. >> making a pitch shtick there. >> but, more if this were a primary, and there were no speeches that night, before you voted the, mitt
we want to go with romney. sniet. >> right. well, one thing i think you see, in 2008 we had a record turnout with just under 120,000 iowa republicans. and in that four-year span since then we've had 33 straight months of republican registration gains here in iowa. so we've got about 30,000 more iowa republicans. we had the second largest say ten dance we saw ever in the extra poll in august. and it's the first chance anybody in the country gets to vote to start the process to replace...
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how would you characterize mitt romney's legacy on gay rights in massachusetts? >> well, i was there in 1994, and he was out there on the edge. he was pushing ted kennedy, saying he was going to be as you just said, he would be better than ted on gay rights. he thought that don't ask don't tell, that was going to -- he wanted to go beyond that. and that was just put in place by the clinton administration. he was out there, and when he came back and ran for governor, he continued to be domestic partnerships, and there was in massachusetts he was a moderate socially progressive person in a lot of social issues, one of them was gay rights. >> of course when the massachusetts supreme court legalized same sex marriage in the state, in 2005 was it? no, earlier. >> 2003. november of 2003. he was in office a year. >> his reaction was he was against it and he got involved with the republicans in the legislature to try to block it. was that -- was that a characteristic move for him, was he acting the way he had previously or did that change him at all? >> i think it did ch
how would you characterize mitt romney's legacy on gay rights in massachusetts? >> well, i was there in 1994, and he was out there on the edge. he was pushing ted kennedy, saying he was going to be as you just said, he would be better than ted on gay rights. he thought that don't ask don't tell, that was going to -- he wanted to go beyond that. and that was just put in place by the clinton administration. he was out there, and when he came back and ran for governor, he continued to be...
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wade except by electing mitt romney, right? who will then pick supreme court judges who will do that. but they can't make it so hard to get an abortion that it might as well be illegal. they can make the right to access abortion a right in name only. after republicans won big majorities in 2010, they've enacted restrictions not seen. since roe vs. wade was decided in 1973. and as a result of this new wave of restrictions, we're seeing signs of a return to a reality in america that is looking more and more like the days before roe. "business week" published an interesting story this week out of arizona about a woman who is running a nonprofit program there to help poor women in arizona find ways to access abortions. discusses these new restrictions. you can no longer get an abortion outside tucson or phoenix in arizona. and even then you have to wait 24 hours after a forced ultrasound, which means many women are forced to travel hundreds of miles, and then pay to stay overnight in one of those two cities. pending another new abo
wade except by electing mitt romney, right? who will then pick supreme court judges who will do that. but they can't make it so hard to get an abortion that it might as well be illegal. they can make the right to access abortion a right in name only. after republicans won big majorities in 2010, they've enacted restrictions not seen. since roe vs. wade was decided in 1973. and as a result of this new wave of restrictions, we're seeing signs of a return to a reality in america that is looking...
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so i want to simplify our tax code. >> romney is walking right into the president of the united states's wheelhouse when it comes to the discussion of tax fairness. the president has been hammering this message of tax fairness for the past year. fair share. he did it again last night on "60 minutes." >> you can't ask me to make student loans higher for kids who need it or ask seniors to pay more for medicare or throw people off of health care and not ask somebody like me to do anything? not ask us to do a single dime's worth of sacrifice? >> the obama campaign rubbed salt in the wound by releasing this ad today linking romney's tax returns to his 47% comments. >> mitt romney attacked 47% of americans who pay no income tax including veterans, elderly, the disabled. >> my job is not to worry about those people. >> doesn't the president have to worry about everyone? mitt romney paid 14.1% in taxes last year. he keeps millions in bermuda and the cayman islands. he won't release his tax returns before 2010. maybe romney should come clean on his taxes. >> what's going to happen? the american p
so i want to simplify our tax code. >> romney is walking right into the president of the united states's wheelhouse when it comes to the discussion of tax fairness. the president has been hammering this message of tax fairness for the past year. fair share. he did it again last night on "60 minutes." >> you can't ask me to make student loans higher for kids who need it or ask seniors to pay more for medicare or throw people off of health care and not ask somebody like me...
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romney planted to the right of rick perry as well. let's listen to that. >> if you've been in the state of texas for three years, if you're working towards your college degree and if you are working and pursuing citizenship in the state of texas, you pay instate tuition there. >> with regards to illegal immigration, of course we'd build a fence and of course we do not give instate tuition credits to people who have come here illegally. that only attracts people to continue to come here and talk advantage of america's great benefits. >> when the january 16th gop debate, mitt romney laid out his hard line on immigration. let's listen to that. >> i think we have to follow the law and insist those that have come here illegally ultimately return home, apply, get in line with everyone else. >> well, there you have it. i want to start with david corn. seems to me he's laid out the law will be enforced. it will be enforced with a terror if not. if it hasn't been before. in other words, you go home where you came from, where your parents broug
romney planted to the right of rick perry as well. let's listen to that. >> if you've been in the state of texas for three years, if you're working towards your college degree and if you are working and pursuing citizenship in the state of texas, you pay instate tuition there. >> with regards to illegal immigration, of course we'd build a fence and of course we do not give instate tuition credits to people who have come here illegally. that only attracts people to continue to come...
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you're romney right now, the brains around him. do you think there's a good or a bad chance the enemy will unite? >> well, i think that you have to be encouraged if you're on the romney campaign, which i'm not a member of, chris, despite that. that rick perry staying in the race in south carolina, i mean, four years ago in 2008, the most important thing that happened to john mccain in terms of being able to win the south carolina primary, which set up the florida victory, which set up his ability to be the nominee, was fred thompson staying in the race. it siphoned just enough votes away from mike huckabee to put john mccain over the top. >> what's your thought? >> politicians act in their own self-interest. it's not a team sport. rick perry is saying he wants to go out there and end this on his own terms and see if he can have a couple of good debate performances. hope springs eternal in this business so i don't think rick perry's calculations are about how does it affect rick santorum or how does it affect mitt romney? i think it
you're romney right now, the brains around him. do you think there's a good or a bad chance the enemy will unite? >> well, i think that you have to be encouraged if you're on the romney campaign, which i'm not a member of, chris, despite that. that rick perry staying in the race in south carolina, i mean, four years ago in 2008, the most important thing that happened to john mccain in terms of being able to win the south carolina primary, which set up the florida victory, which set up his...
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right now mitt romney and paul ryan are about to take their victory lap. a good-bye rally will start any minute now. now that the convention is finished, the next two months on the campaign trail will be a grueling fight for every vote. the reviews of romney's big moment last night has been generally good. he
right now mitt romney and paul ryan are about to take their victory lap. a good-bye rally will start any minute now. now that the convention is finished, the next two months on the campaign trail will be a grueling fight for every vote. the reviews of romney's big moment last night has been generally good. he
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romney, right? why on god's great campaign trail would mitt romney get up in front of 12,000 people in ohio and tell them the auto bailout actually hasn't helped you at all. your jobs making jeeps are going to china. i read it somewhere. where's this story he said he read somewhere? we found it. here it is. he was apparently trolling the nether regions of the right-wing press. he found it on a washington examiner blog post, which reported, quote, jeep, an obama favorite, looks to shift production to china. a move that would crash the economy in toledo. is this true? this is not true. this is a conservative blogger's misreading of a bloomberg report that actually was reporting this news for jeep. the bloomberg report was that global demand for jeep has risen to the point where the company can sell more of them in china and it wants to build jeeps for china in china. this is good news for an american company, not bad news. they are not shipping american jobs overseas. this doesn't mean less work for a
romney, right? why on god's great campaign trail would mitt romney get up in front of 12,000 people in ohio and tell them the auto bailout actually hasn't helped you at all. your jobs making jeeps are going to china. i read it somewhere. where's this story he said he read somewhere? we found it. here it is. he was apparently trolling the nether regions of the right-wing press. he found it on a washington examiner blog post, which reported, quote, jeep, an obama favorite, looks to shift...
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they're getting walked right into this. romney is his own worst enemy in all of this. what if he didn't pay taxes in 20 2009? how will that fly with the american people? >> i put that all in the appropriate context. unless there was criminal behavior, ill gotten gains or lead to some ill gotten gains, he did it by the books. he played by the rules in place. so i think that's the narrative that is puzzling to me. get out in front of that, to you know, the point that was made. >> if he didn't pay any taxes and he so-called gets out in front of it, the american people are going to be seeing a tax return, this guy is still worth millions and millions of dollars and he pays nothing. he would be making the case the democrats have been trying to make for a long time. >> making the case for tax fairness. >> that's the argument he could make and say, look, i benefitted from this system. the system is imbalanced, it's not fair, and as president of the united states, i want to make sure it's fair for everyone. >> but michael, he doesn't do that. the plan he has -- >> i'm just say
they're getting walked right into this. romney is his own worst enemy in all of this. what if he didn't pay taxes in 20 2009? how will that fly with the american people? >> i put that all in the appropriate context. unless there was criminal behavior, ill gotten gains or lead to some ill gotten gains, he did it by the books. he played by the rules in place. so i think that's the narrative that is puzzling to me. get out in front of that, to you know, the point that was made. >> if...
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"hardball" starts right now. >>> mitt romney's tax rates. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washinton tonight. >>> leading off tonight, the 15% solution. how many ways has mitt romney messed up talking about his income in the last several hours? let me count the ways. last night, he was unclear about whether he would release his tax records. now we know why. today, mitt romney acknowledges he pays roughly, catch this, 15% in taxes. a far lower rate than people making much less. then he said "i get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much." not very much? that not very much amounted to $374,000 a year. that's roughly nine times what the average american makes. no one is denying mitt's right to make money, but no one is going to stop the democrats from making an issue out of it either. >>> plus once again, the audience was the big story at last night's debate. big cheers when rick perry said south carolina was at war with the federal government. boos when the moderator asked newt about possibly making racially insensitive remarks. huge cheers f
"hardball" starts right now. >>> mitt romney's tax rates. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washinton tonight. >>> leading off tonight, the 15% solution. how many ways has mitt romney messed up talking about his income in the last several hours? let me count the ways. last night, he was unclear about whether he would release his tax records. now we know why. today, mitt romney acknowledges he pays roughly, catch this,...
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to felons so he could come back and say, but in massachusetts you gave them voting rights. >> romney is improving. yes, it's bad whenever your answer starts to be about gobbledygook about pacs, but at least he didn't ask the moderator for help this time. >> the problem with this whole thing, we're going to it get to the second part of this show. we're going to get to something really awful about food stamps. but this debate process, are we getting near the end here? we have had 20 of these things. are we getting near the end? >> we're getting near the end of the debates people will actually watch. but there's still plenty to go. >> there's a strange development going on. i've noticed a polling shows a shift towards romney without a reason. it's not like he's made interesting points. not like he has shown great skill in these debates. a new poll today from "the washington post" takes a look. mitt romney has surged to a strong lead nationally among likely republican voters. he's gained 5% from last month. i always kid. i don't kid, i notice the weird culture of the republican party. on
to felons so he could come back and say, but in massachusetts you gave them voting rights. >> romney is improving. yes, it's bad whenever your answer starts to be about gobbledygook about pacs, but at least he didn't ask the moderator for help this time. >> the problem with this whole thing, we're going to it get to the second part of this show. we're going to get to something really awful about food stamps. but this debate process, are we getting near the end here? we have had 20...
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the problem for newt -- for mitt romney right now, is that he does look like the man of the top 1%. his taxes told us that. the polls, not just the polls. the elections are showing us that. he wins with voters who make over $200,000 a year and he loses with voters, the lunch pail republicans, who make around $50,000 a year. but the thing that i think is really scary is just this sewer of negative advertising that we're seeing in florida. you know, that's part of why we really can't determine who is going to come out on top because they just keep throwing buckets of slime at one another. and from outside if we're not watching all of that advertising, it's really hard to keep an eye on exactly what's happening. and for mr. tyler to say he's -- he doesn't talk to his candidate, he doesn't need to. he worked for him for years. he is able to channel him. so this is really a case study in how fictional this idea of these independent pacs really are. >> rick, are you a fiction? are you creating a fictional difference between yourself and your candidate? are you channeling him in the way so
the problem for newt -- for mitt romney right now, is that he does look like the man of the top 1%. his taxes told us that. the polls, not just the polls. the elections are showing us that. he wins with voters who make over $200,000 a year and he loses with voters, the lunch pail republicans, who make around $50,000 a year. but the thing that i think is really scary is just this sewer of negative advertising that we're seeing in florida. you know, that's part of why we really can't determine...
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the ryan budget and romney, they don't want to talk about the specific cuts. >> right. that seems to be because they're both fear what that looks like in tv ads. >> also because all of these politicians are reluctant to go to people 15 and say, look we have to do hard thing and there are some things you'll dis agree with. what obama was successful with in 2008 how he talked about issues, what he represented in terms of how washington worked. you can argue whether he achieved that. romney has to spend time talking about how he's going to solve the problems in the town, the inability of problems getting solved. we'll talk about faith and politics, dick durbin and john kasich, from ohio. >> interesting stuff. >> two visions of the country now. >> it's as stark and clear as you can have it. >>> the man responsible for setting off the etch a sketch firestorm, eric fern sturm. a look ahead at the president's schedule. it's that big thing, women's conference today. also a seder at the white house tonight. watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. oú >>> mitt romney isn't of
the ryan budget and romney, they don't want to talk about the specific cuts. >> right. that seems to be because they're both fear what that looks like in tv ads. >> also because all of these politicians are reluctant to go to people 15 and say, look we have to do hard thing and there are some things you'll dis agree with. what obama was successful with in 2008 how he talked about issues, what he represented in terms of how washington worked. you can argue whether he achieved that....
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the president is less than a point behind romney in florida right now. mitt romney campaigned with his wife in cleveland, ohio, today. he's trailing the president. romney also stopped in des moines, iowa, today. he's trailing the president there by at least two points. president made an earlier stop in new hampshire, stoke at rally in concord. the president is leading by two points there but asking voters to help out over the next 48 hours. >> if you're willing to turn out for me, we'll win new hampshire, we'll win this election. we'll finish what we started. >> oh, it's been a long campaign trail. listen to the voices. let's bring in howard fineman, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of "the huffington post" media group. howard, great to have you with us tonight. there are real different things happening down the stretch here in this campaign. what are they? >> tomorrow there's going to be a battle of the bands literally in columbus, ohio, where the obama campaign and romney campaign are going to run into each other. the president is goin
the president is less than a point behind romney in florida right now. mitt romney campaigned with his wife in cleveland, ohio, today. he's trailing the president. romney also stopped in des moines, iowa, today. he's trailing the president there by at least two points. president made an earlier stop in new hampshire, stoke at rally in concord. the president is leading by two points there but asking voters to help out over the next 48 hours. >> if you're willing to turn out for me, we'll...
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i think taking a step back, if governor romney right now was running and not candidate romney, the president would have a run for his money, governor romney very much talked about the importance of immigration, he really talked about business, he talked about taxes. he talked about education in a way that was actually very open to the latino community. unfortunately, right now, we have candidate romney who is talking about deportation, that doesn't make sense, the fact he is denying dream act, overall you not just latino voters but across-the-board independent voters agree with. that is where you get stuck. talk about florida and the i-corridor, he won florida overwhelmingly but florida is literally divided between 100,000 votes between democrats and republicans in the latino community. it is going to be tough. arizona is in play. >> it is funny, looking at the hard numbers from '08 in florida, obama won hispanic 57-42. in arizona, he won it 56-41. that was with mccain on the ballot, mccain probably overperforming, if he win it is at a level that he won, let go through this, colorado, 61-38,
i think taking a step back, if governor romney right now was running and not candidate romney, the president would have a run for his money, governor romney very much talked about the importance of immigration, he really talked about business, he talked about taxes. he talked about education in a way that was actually very open to the latino community. unfortunately, right now, we have candidate romney who is talking about deportation, that doesn't make sense, the fact he is denying dream act,...
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finally, all right emerging breaux maps between ron paul and mitt romney provide backup for romney again tonight? romney and his super pac are outspending santorum 2-1 in minnesota, note number shrinks if you look at advertising this week but an ad that romney's not running against santorum that's getting some attention this morning. >> is this dude serious? fiscal conservative? really? >> it is an a that sounds an awful lot like this one. >> senator santorum hasn't been as carefully viewed by the american public as have the others. i think a tea party would find it very interesting that rick santorum voted to raise the debt ceiling five times without getting compensating reductions in spending. i don't think rick santorum's track record is that of a fiscal conservative. >> and it is just the latest attack at ron paul aired against whoever was romney's chief rival at a key moment in the campaign. take a look at all of these examples. >> al gore found a cheerleader in texas named rick perry. now, america must decide who to trust, al gore's texas cheerleader or the one who stood with reaga
finally, all right emerging breaux maps between ron paul and mitt romney provide backup for romney again tonight? romney and his super pac are outspending santorum 2-1 in minnesota, note number shrinks if you look at advertising this week but an ad that romney's not running against santorum that's getting some attention this morning. >> is this dude serious? fiscal conservative? really? >> it is an a that sounds an awful lot like this one. >> senator santorum hasn't been as...
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. >> seems like this is one area where romney has stuck himself so far to the right. we've often asked how far -- if you spend the whole fight saying i'm going to be the toughest person on hispanic people here, the right of newt, the the right of perry, the right of santorum, ron paul especially, i'm so far right, you can't get to my right and then says by the way, i'm doing an about face. can he get away with it? >> this is the perfect encapsulati encapsulation. you played the clip, chris, when he said there's one solution here. people go back to where they came from and then we deal with it then. then when bob schieffer asked him the same question, three, four times, not only does he not have an answer, well, i'm going to do a long-term solution. his solution was to send them back, self-deport, whatever you call it. and the fact that, he did the interview on saturday, couldn't answer the question. it's his campaign running ads that say on day one. with what's he going to do day one about this directive. >> how many generations have been in this country. they're goin
. >> seems like this is one area where romney has stuck himself so far to the right. we've often asked how far -- if you spend the whole fight saying i'm going to be the toughest person on hispanic people here, the right of newt, the the right of perry, the right of santorum, ron paul especially, i'm so far right, you can't get to my right and then says by the way, i'm doing an about face. can he get away with it? >> this is the perfect encapsulati encapsulation. you played the...
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look at his win map here, right, santorum is in purple, romney's in green. wisconsin is sort of halfway, you know, sitting in between where he's done well as you sort of go into this, in your neck of woods there, the dakotas and more of the agricultural midwest while romney has eked out these wins in the industrial west, so wisconsin's got a little bit of both in it. >> chuck todd, great to have you with us, thanks so much. >>> now let's turn to howard fineman, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of "the huffington post" and steve schmidt, served as a senior adviser to senator john mccain's presidential campaign. howard, what are you hearing from the campaigns tonight in the wake of this? >> well, i think the santorum campaign thinks that, at best, there's a semicolon, neither a period or exclamation point, there's another half of the sentence, and they think the next half of the sentence are some of the states chuck was talking about, louisiana and wisconsin, but also they had a long conference call today, earlier today, ed, that i was on in w
look at his win map here, right, santorum is in purple, romney's in green. wisconsin is sort of halfway, you know, sitting in between where he's done well as you sort of go into this, in your neck of woods there, the dakotas and more of the agricultural midwest while romney has eked out these wins in the industrial west, so wisconsin's got a little bit of both in it. >> chuck todd, great to have you with us, thanks so much. >>> now let's turn to howard fineman, nbc news political...
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candidate. >> i see. >> romney has that right now. it's also been won by the person who's been the most deft in negative politics. i think most of that if it's going to happen is still to play out. >> okay. interesting. is that your view, david, that it's still a plus for romney because they tend to want to vote for the winner it's fair to say? >> well, mccain won i think with about 34% of the vote last time, and he wasn't the far right candidate. so south carolina has a reputation of being conservative but they also are prey to the people with the most resources who get the nastiest. i think mark is right. the thing to pay attention to in the next few days is not the debate that's going to come thursday night. we can expect that newt will do well. maybe romney will do a little better than the other night and be feistier, but what is going to happen on the ground with campaign ads and also push pulling and all -- polling and all the techniques they do so well in south carolina right up to saturday? newt got a justifiable bounce from h
candidate. >> i see. >> romney has that right now. it's also been won by the person who's been the most deft in negative politics. i think most of that if it's going to happen is still to play out. >> okay. interesting. is that your view, david, that it's still a plus for romney because they tend to want to vote for the winner it's fair to say? >> well, mccain won i think with about 34% of the vote last time, and he wasn't the far right candidate. so south carolina has a...
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stick around right now for chuck todd and "the daily rundown." >> mitt romney tries to close the deal. he's way ahead in the new hampshire polls and rolled out the endorsement of local favorite john mccain, so why did so many people showing up at this town hall seem so lukewarm? >> hold on, my turn. you've had your turn and now it's my turn, all right? >> my conversation with senator mccain just ahead. rick santorum raises a million bucks in 18 hours following his squeaker loss in iowa, but he's got a lot of ground to make up, and here comes the media scrutiny. and president obama bucks republicans with a recess appointment to the consumer protection agency. how much does the white house relish a fight with congressional republicans? they are trying to pick it. it's thursday, january 5th, 2012. this is "the daily rundown" live from manchester, new hampshire, our home for the next four, five days. i'm chuck todd. let's get right to my first reads of the morning w.just days to go before tuesday's new hampshire primary, rick santorum is here making the case that he can overcome his bigge
stick around right now for chuck todd and "the daily rundown." >> mitt romney tries to close the deal. he's way ahead in the new hampshire polls and rolled out the endorsement of local favorite john mccain, so why did so many people showing up at this town hall seem so lukewarm? >> hold on, my turn. you've had your turn and now it's my turn, all right? >> my conversation with senator mccain just ahead. rick santorum raises a million bucks in 18 hours following his...
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because romney still is not right with the base. you know, 33% of the republican electorate still doesn't want romney and anything can happen. >> you guys are smart. you think romney should be thinking like a winner not a loser. >> newt is the last man standing and has to play this out. the question we have is whether he is going to lead pickett's charge and try to win this time or whether he is going to become the suicide bomber that blows everything up in the gop. >> you're following my advice i wrote in a book once and forgot about. don't get mad. don't get even. get ahead. >> and look like a winner to be a winner. he looked like a loser last night. >> you believe if he really thinks he has a chance to win he'll be a little more charming. here gingrich vowed to take the republican primary fight as you suggest through every state of the country. let's listen to his plan. >> you'll notice the number of folks are holding up a sign about 46 states to go. we did this in part for the elite media because, you know, the same people who s
because romney still is not right with the base. you know, 33% of the republican electorate still doesn't want romney and anything can happen. >> you guys are smart. you think romney should be thinking like a winner not a loser. >> newt is the last man standing and has to play this out. the question we have is whether he is going to lead pickett's charge and try to win this time or whether he is going to become the suicide bomber that blows everything up in the gop. >> you're...
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>> well, because, ed, the political narrative and the optics aren't good for the romney campaign right now. >> michael, can he go to the convention with this hanging over his head? >> no, i don't think so. maybe there are people out there that are a heck of a lot better and smarter at this game than i am, but i don't see how you have that hanging over your head and not have that be a part of the conversation for five days. >> you have to wonder why, he's campaigned for so many years, how is it that he has just failed to deal with this? this came up in the primaries. it may be that his opponents were weak, it may be the hubris of thinking that the money would get him through or vote suppression would get him through, but now the narrative is such, and it's deeper, i've got to say, it's deeper than just releasing. it's about the system. >> so when does newt gingrich engage? i mean, his spoex gkes guy was this program last night, rich taylor, but when does newt gingrich engage and say, this is an issue i brought up a long time ago, there could be some problems here. how do they turn to th
>> well, because, ed, the political narrative and the optics aren't good for the romney campaign right now. >> michael, can he go to the convention with this hanging over his head? >> no, i don't think so. maybe there are people out there that are a heck of a lot better and smarter at this game than i am, but i don't see how you have that hanging over your head and not have that be a part of the conversation for five days. >> you have to wonder why, he's campaigned for...
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romney's right to hang in tough on this. >> joy reid, it's down to rush. that's what romney has as a defender on tax trends, the guy who has made maybe a couple hundred million dollars himself. >> indeed. and the ad that you showed before with mitt romney's son, it kind of reminded me of like my tenth grade spanish class, when we had to do the recitation. it really was just that authentic. you know, the problem that mitt romney has is that he doesn't seem to understand sort of ironclad rule of re-elect politics. a re-elect is a referendum on the immediate past performance of the president, the last three years. but it's also a referendum on the character, history, and profile of the opponent. his history matters, because the voters have to decide, do we want to replace this guy we know, who we've already grandfathered in the information we knew about him. like you said, he already wrote about drug use. he grandfathered that in, we made a decision, he was elected. but the voters want to know, should they replace him with mitt romney? it's mitt romney's past
romney's right to hang in tough on this. >> joy reid, it's down to rush. that's what romney has as a defender on tax trends, the guy who has made maybe a couple hundred million dollars himself. >> indeed. and the ad that you showed before with mitt romney's son, it kind of reminded me of like my tenth grade spanish class, when we had to do the recitation. it really was just that authentic. you know, the problem that mitt romney has is that he doesn't seem to understand sort of...
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stick around right now. >> romney's roller coaster ride. his image of inestability takes another blow. word that a new count of the iowa caulk yes, sey iowa caucus put him hipped rick s hipped rick santorum. >> and we have brand new poll numbers that show the wind is at newt gingrich's back in south carolina. but what happens if romney's story goes from 3-0 to uh-oh? first, gingrich has to overcome an explosive interview with one of his ex-wives. and back in washington, the obama administration hits the brakes on the keystone pipeline plant. the president bolstering his base at the expense of critical independence? by the way, he's up with his first ad and advertise defensive. good morning from south carolina. it's thursday, january 19th, 2012. it's "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. i'm right here in rock hill. we got some early risers here. of course, you know, 9:00 a.m. on a college campus, how many people are here? let me get to my first reads of the morning. could mitt romney's coronation be stalling? two days ago it looked like romn
stick around right now. >> romney's roller coaster ride. his image of inestability takes another blow. word that a new count of the iowa caulk yes, sey iowa caucus put him hipped rick s hipped rick santorum. >> and we have brand new poll numbers that show the wind is at newt gingrich's back in south carolina. but what happens if romney's story goes from 3-0 to uh-oh? first, gingrich has to overcome an explosive interview with one of his ex-wives. and back in washington, the obama...
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that's on the little short list there of things to feel bad about mitt romney, right? if you want to follow the way this ad makes you want to feel. this ad is taking on not just the legacy of the george w. bush years, but also mitt romney bragging, which he does on the stump regularly, that he will increase defense spending, and hanging that on him about the deficit. in my lifetime, i have never seen a democratic president play political offense on the issue of military spending so aggressively. i have never seen it. that's because the common wisdom for decades is that kind of message is impossible. it cannot work. democrats cannot criticize republicans for wanting to spend too much on the military. it can't work. that's the common wisdom and it has been since reagan. it's changing now apparently. at least the obama campaign thinks it is. if their are right, that's a historic chae for us as a country and our politics. barney frank joins us next. >>> now, we face a choice. mitt romney's plan, a new $250,000 tax cut for millionaires, increase military spending, adding tr
that's on the little short list there of things to feel bad about mitt romney, right? if you want to follow the way this ad makes you want to feel. this ad is taking on not just the legacy of the george w. bush years, but also mitt romney bragging, which he does on the stump regularly, that he will increase defense spending, and hanging that on him about the deficit. in my lifetime, i have never seen a democratic president play political offense on the issue of military spending so...
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mitt romney hasn't found the right values. and romney's criticism, the president is over his head and doesn't have the skills. >> exactly. what cory booker did for the obama campaign on sunday, hon 234e679 honestally, give the president a christmas gift. i do. >> i've heard this theory. >> in my opinion, only the president con explain why what happened at bain capital wa important. he's able to explain that, yes, there is a role for private equity in the economy, but the job of the president is not to cide who is going to get fired and who's going to keep their job. the job of the president is to make sure the entire country is employed. >> i want to play this video. we played earlier. mitt romney's campaign putting together ford, booker and others. a little ad. >> they sit there and wait until they see a stressed company, swoop in and kick the carcass clean and then fly away. >> companies leave behind broken family, broken towns. people on unemployment. >> governor romney enjoys firing people. >> takes out all the cash and le
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and also with mitt romney in texas, texas has an interesting issue going on right now, too. rick perry and his republican allies have essentially gotten into a pissing match for lack of a better term over funding for planned parent and over 100,000 low income texas women are in danger of losing access to any kind of well-woman preventative care. i'm very interested to see while he's on the ground there if he gets any questions about what's going on in texas because that's something that we've seen playing out at the federal level in terms of trying to defund planned parenthood and in state after state across the country. >> right. joe, mitt romney -- >> he's not going to get any questions at all because he's been so insulated from even the merest of questions at the rope line. a lot of people have been trying, a lot of reporters have been complaining they get virtually no access to the candidate. while that's not that surprising, certainly it helps to camouflage a lot of what mitt romney really thinks about these issues and it also has the effect of keeping him on script and
and also with mitt romney in texas, texas has an interesting issue going on right now, too. rick perry and his republican allies have essentially gotten into a pissing match for lack of a better term over funding for planned parent and over 100,000 low income texas women are in danger of losing access to any kind of well-woman preventative care. i'm very interested to see while he's on the ground there if he gets any questions about what's going on in texas because that's something that we've...
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when newt was running a positive campaign. >> i think the tough part for romney right now is his campaign is built on three legs, it's the republican desire to get rid of obama, it's the bad economy and his standing as a business leader. right now the economy seems to be turning around and his standing as a business leader is being called into question in front of the entire american public. >> those are the long-term issues. >> he's got a real problem on his hands. >> this is short-term and what's interesting here is that our future is up with an attack ad not on newt gingrich. but on santorum. here's a piece of it. >> barack obama knows four facts about rick santorum that you don't. santorum voted for the bridge to nowhere. a teapot museum. santorum voted to raise the debt limit five times and he even voted to let convicted felons vote. how will santorum beat obama? obama knows he can't. >> there you go. it has been my hunch that it's santorum that's the biggest threat to romney in south carolina, followed by newt. >> i think that newt has blown himself up this week, huntsman is a nonfa
when newt was running a positive campaign. >> i think the tough part for romney right now is his campaign is built on three legs, it's the republican desire to get rid of obama, it's the bad economy and his standing as a business leader. right now the economy seems to be turning around and his standing as a business leader is being called into question in front of the entire american public. >> those are the long-term issues. >> he's got a real problem on his hands. >>...
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this morning in an interview with cbs, romney fired right back. >> i think unhinged would have to characterize what we have seen from the president's campaign. the president's campaign is all about division and attack and hatred. my campaign is about getting america back to work. if you look at the ads that have been described and the divisiveness based on income, age, ethnicity and so forth, it's designed to bring a sense of emnitty and jealousy and anger. >> biden was not apologetic, he said he was just borrowing the republican's rhetoric. >> biden said we believe the -- i'm using their own words. i got a message for them. if you want to know what's outrageous, it's their policies. and the effects of their policies on middle class america. that's what's outrageous. >> well, romney responded to that biden attack on ryan this morning. >> can't speak for anybody else, but i can say that the comments of the vice president as i heard them i thought were one more example of a divisive effort to keep from talking about the real issues. look, no one is talking about deregulating wall street. >> let
this morning in an interview with cbs, romney fired right back. >> i think unhinged would have to characterize what we have seen from the president's campaign. the president's campaign is all about division and attack and hatred. my campaign is about getting america back to work. if you look at the ads that have been described and the divisiveness based on income, age, ethnicity and so forth, it's designed to bring a sense of emnitty and jealousy and anger. >> biden was not...
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. >> and that remember, that terms, as ridiculous as it was, but also remember how far to the right romney was in the primaries. think of the political imperative for romney at the time. he was so distrusted by the base, the only issue that was really logical for him to get to the right of gingrich, of santorum, of perry, of all his opponents was on immigration. so he really took advantage of it one of the few times he could be the conservative candidate. but he had an opportunity, the interesting thing about what we're seeing right now, it looked like for the last few weeks that immigration was actually going to be the issue that the romney campaign used to sort of defy the stereotype of the spineless opportunist who's afraid to tell you what he really thinks. marco rubio was going to come out and propose essentially what obama did on friday. romney was going to get behind it and there were signs from immigration groups that they were actually going to be okay with it. so they had the prospect here of romney endorsing this, doing away with the problem he had with hispanic voters, and mayb
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it's romney hood. >> damned right. >> robin hood was stealing from the government. >> romney hood. >> robin hood was a tea party activist. >> and guess what, it does not work. >> romney hood! >> it's romney hood. >> if i were to coin a term, it would be obamaloney. >> stiff, awkward, fill in the blank mitt romney. >>> good evening. i'm alex wagner, in for lawrence o'donnell. there are 91 days to go until the presidential election, and there is a telltale sign when a republican knows he's running a losing campaign. ronald reagan's losing campaign for the gop nomination in 1976. "there's a woman in chicago.
it's romney hood. >> damned right. >> robin hood was stealing from the government. >> romney hood. >> robin hood was a tea party activist. >> and guess what, it does not work. >> romney hood! >> it's romney hood. >> if i were to coin a term, it would be obamaloney. >> stiff, awkward, fill in the blank mitt romney. >>> good evening. i'm alex wagner, in for lawrence o'donnell. there are 91 days to go until the presidential election,...